United States presidential election, 1920

The United States presidential election, 1920 was held on 2 November 1920. The Democratic Party incumbent Woodrow Wilson was in poor health, so the Democrats chose James M. Cox as their candidate; Franklin D. Roosevelt was his running mate. The Republican Party chose Warren G. Harding as its nominee, with Calvin Coolidge serving as his running mate. Harding called for a "return to normalcy", opposing the reformist zeal of the Progressive Era. The wartime economic boom had collapsed, leading to the country entering a depression, and major strikes in the meatpacking and steel industries, large-scale riots in Chicago and other cities, anarchist terrorism, and Wilson's friendship with United Kingdom (which alienated the Irish Catholic and German communities) led to the public opposing any further reforms. In the first election in which women were allowed to vote, Harding won election with 404 electoral votes to Cox's 127.